Quotes About Expression

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Work, which is considered an expression of a person's value, also becomes a part of one's spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good